😕Confused Face Emoji

Tagged befuddled, confused and confusing, 😕 confused face sits in Unicode's Concerned group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0 (2015) at U+1F615.

What 😕 confused face means

The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.

Unicode tags this one befuddled, confused and confusing and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F615`
HTML hex	`😕`
HTML decimal	`😕`
CSS	`\1F615`
JavaScript	`\u{1F615}`
Python	`\U0001F615`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE15`
Rust	`\u{1f615}`
Swift	`\u{1F615}`
PHP	`\u{1F615}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%95`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 95`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE15`
Base64	`8J+YlQ==`
Decimal	`128533`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

befuddled
confused
confusing
dunno
face
frown
hm
meh
not
sad
sorry
sure

Appears in these collections

How to type 😕

Windows — press Win + . and search “confused face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “befuddled”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f615 and Enter.
HTML — paste 😕.

How 😕 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

😕Apple
😕Segoe
😕Noto
😕System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 😕 confused face emoji mean?+

😕 is the confused face emoji, tagged befuddled, confused and confusing. The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.

What is the Unicode code for 😕?+

confused face is U+1F615. In HTML that is 😕, in CSS \1F615, and in JavaScript \u{1F615}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😕 emoji added?+

confused face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😕 confused face.